רְמַלְיָ֜הוּ
Remaliah
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H7425 appears — 13 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Kings 7 verses
- 2 Kings 15:25 רְמַלְיָ֜הוּ n Proper Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and struck him in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his place.
- 2 Kings 15:27 רְמַלְיָ֧הוּ n Proper In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] twenty years.
- 2 Kings 15:30 רְמַלְיָ֔הוּ n Proper Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and struck him, and killed him, and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.
- 2 Kings 15:32 רְמַלְיָ֖הוּ n Proper In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
- 2 Kings 15:37 רְמַלְיָֽהוּ n Proper In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
- 2 Kings 16:1 רְמַלְיָ֑הוּ n Proper In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Kings 16:5 רְמַלְיָ֧הוּ n Proper Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Isaiah 5 verses
- Isaiah 7:1 רְמַלְיָ֤הוּ n Proper It happened in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
- Isaiah 7:4 רְמַלְיָֽהוּ n Proper Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Don't be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
- Isaiah 7:5 רְמַלְיָ֖הוּ n Proper Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,
- Isaiah 7:9 רְמַלְיָ֑הוּ n Proper and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'"
- Isaiah 8:6 רְמַלְיָֽהוּ n Proper Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
About this entry
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רמליהו (Rᵉmalyâhûw) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Remaliah.” 2 Kings dominates its distribution — 7 of 13 verses. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 13 verses — uncommon. Debuting at 2 Kings 15:25, it then recurs through the corpus. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7425 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 7 verses 54%
- Isaiah 5 verses 38%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 8%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 13 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 12 verses · 92%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 8%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Remaliah 11×
- American Standard Version: Remaliah 12×
- Berean Standard Bible: Remaliah 13×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Remaliah 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7425 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7425 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7425 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7425 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Remaliah = "protected by Jehovah"
- father of king Pekah of the northern kingdom of Israel
Word origin
n.pr.m. father of Peḳaḥ, king of Israel, בֶּן־ר׳ 2 K 15:25, 27, 30, 32, 37; 16:1, 5; Is 7:1; 2 Ch 28:6; contempt. (פֶּקַח om.) Is 7:4, 5, 9; 8:6; υἱὸς Ῥομελίου.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יה (Yâhh) (H3050) — Jah.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H7425 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| רְמַלְיָֽהוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 15:37 | 3 |
| רְמַלְיָ֑הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 16:1 | 2 |
| רְמַלְיָ֖הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 15:32 | 2 |
| רְמַלְיָ֜הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 28:6 | 2 |
| רְמַלְיָ֧הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 15:27 | 2 |
| רְמַלְיָ֔הוּ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 15:30 | 1 |
| רְמַלְיָ֤הוּ | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 7:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7425, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Remaliah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Adorned by the Lord, the father of Pekah, who conspired successfully against Pekahiah (2 Kings 15:25, 27, 30, 32, 37; Isa. 7:1, 4, 5, 9; 8:6).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(protected by Jehovah). The father of Pekah, captain of Pekahiah; king of Israel, who slew his master and usurped his throne. (2 Kings 15:25-37; 16:1,5; 2 Chronicles 28:6; Isaiah 7:1-9; 8:6) (B.C. 756.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the exaltation of the Lord
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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